New Hampshire Family NOW

On SEASON FINALE of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink reflect on 2024 highlights, lowlights, and hopes for the year to come. And later we welcome speaker, author, and executive coach Dr. Keith Edwards for a discussion about the science of gratitude and how, as a practice, gratitude can move us from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 86 of the podcast, host Nathan Fink is joined by guest co-host Cindy Brenner, board member of the Foster Adoptive Resource Exchange (FARE) and past Lucy Fowlkes Breed Family Service Award winner, for an extended conversation about National Adoption Month, and how raising sets of siblings lead to open hearts and open minds. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 85 of the podcast co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink talk transition and the incredible pressures of the unknown. And later we welcome friend, father, and mentor Tony Hebert for a discussion about life after incarceration and what it means to embrace a whole new reality for an individual as well as the family. LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 84 of the podcast, we welcome guest co-host Brandon Larouche, program owner at 603 Brix, a New Hampshire charity organization dedicated to building positive childhood experiences one LEGO® donation at time. And later we reprise an interview with Prevent Child Abuse America Chief Strategist Jennifer Jones, keynote at Children's Trusts 12 Annual Strengthening Annual summit, about her co-authored Theory of Change for Primary Prevention in the US and how we can center families in the of building stronger communities. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 83 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink discuss being the grounding factor in your children's lives and the joy (and pressure) it brings. And later we are joined by Maternal Mental Health Advocate Heather Martin, as well as TLC Family Resource Center Director of Family Support Services Alysse Lizotte and TLC Registered Nurse Karen Jameson for a conversation about Maternal Mental Health and supportive perinatal resources  If you, or someone you know, may be in need of Maternal Mental Health, talk or text 1-833-TLC-MAMA.Also, the national 988 Lifeline Centers are available for phone, text, and chat by dialing 988 or via https://988lifeline.org/chat/.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 82 of the podcast, guest co-hosts Mandy Carter, Kinship Navigator & Community Resource Specialist at The River Center, joins Nathan Fink to discuss helping our children navigate the pitfalls of digital landscape. And we are joined by Executive Director of Able NH Louis Esposito, NAMI NH's Director of Suicide Prevention Services Elaine de Mello, and Director of Teen Programs at the Grapevine Family & Community Resource Center Jacqueline Roland for conversation about cyberbullying, as well as the skills and supports that create safe environments for our youths.  If you, or someone you care about, is experiencing a crisis, please call/text the NH Rapid Response Access Point at 1-833-710-6477 or chat www.NH988.com.Also, the national 988 Lifeline Centers are available for phone, text, and chat by dialing 988 or via https://988lifeline.org/chat/.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 81 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink discuss Kinship Caregiver month and the amazing, sometime arduous, often complex nature of raising the children of others. And through the episode we are joined by real Granite State kinship caregivers, Kinship Navigators Alicia Angove and Diana Merrick, and we hear from Dr. Cassie Yackley, licensed psychologist, Director of the Center for Trauma Responsive Practice Change and the NH Child-Parent Psychotherapy Provider NetworkSupport the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 80 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink talk about resilience and the small but significant ways we build it. And later Family Resource Center leaders Ardis Yahna and Gabrielle Flanders join us to discuss the 2024 Ride for Resilience and how access to family supports makes for stronger, safer, and more equitable communities. Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 79 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink talk about loss, family, and the process of grieving. And later filmmaker, bestselling author, and recipient of the 2023 New Hampshire Literary Award Thomas Tosi joins the show to discuss his forthcoming book The Curse of the Crummy Mummy and how reading helps ease tensions in times of transition. Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 78 of the podcast, father, author, and co-founded of North Light AI Andrew Mitchell guest co-hosts alongside Nathan Fink to discuss how billions of data points cycled through adversarial network can (re)create the experience of a human(ish) reality and what Artificial Intelligence might mean for us as individuals as well as families. Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 77 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink react first with their inner child and then nurture their way back to adulthood and positive and healthy relationships. And later entrepreneur, educator, curator Lionel Loveless, Seacoast Outright executive director Heidi Carrington Heath, and PCA America Chief Strategy Officer Jennifer Jones join the show to help us understand what it means to have pride after Pride, and how yearlong support and welcoming spaces strengthen us all. Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 76 of the podcast, New Hampshire Children's Trust Director of Impact Becky Berk guest co-hosts alongside Nathan Fink, and together they explore the difference between “at-risk” populations and “vulnerable circumstance,” and how valuing families begins before challenges arise. And then, later, we play Messing with Becky one last time to celebrate the tremendous impact Becky Berk has had on Granite State children and caregivers.Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 75 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink talk about Father's Day, what it means to us, and together unpack generations of fatherly influence. And later veteran, father, and  Executive Director of Fathering Together, Cordan James Haveron  joins the show to discuss fatherhood as a learned behavior and how the choices we make builds self-esteem, supports better partnerships, and can create positive generational change. Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 74 of the podcast, Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink talk travel, family, and identity, and then sort through some big feeling. And later Dr. Julie Bosak, Director of Population Health at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, joins the show to discuss perinatal health and all those small but significant steps that lead to a New Hampshire public health opportunity.  If you, or someone you care about, is experiencing a crisis, please call/text the NH Rapid Response Access Point at 1-833-710-6477 or chat www.NH988.com.Also, the national 988 Lifeline Centers are available for phone, text, and chat by dialing 988 or via https://988lifeline.org/chat/.Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 73 of the podcast, guest co-host Susan Stearns, executive director of NAMI New Hampshire, joins Nathan Fink on the show to talk about mental health month and how both empathy and action combine to create an environment where recovery is possible. And later Melissa Wieters, NAMI NH staff member and volunteer director of This Is My Brave NH, as well performers Don McCullough, Liz Stella-Ford, and Brian Harlow, drop by to talk about storytelling, personal growth, and hope for individuals and families facing mental health challenges.If you, or someone you care about, is experiencing a crisis, please call/text the NH Rapid Response Access Point at 1-833-710-6477 or chat www.NH988.com.Also, the national 988 Lifeline Centers are available for phone, text, and chat by dialing 988 or via https://988lifeline.org/chat/.Support the Show.LISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 72 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink discuss the meaning of public resources and how they can stabilize NH families and lead to a greater good for all Granite Staters. And later we feature two interviews from Prevent Child Abuse America's National Conference. Dr. Renée Branch Canady, CEO at Michigan Public Health Institute,  joins us to talk about public health and designing family-friendly systems. And Andrew Russo, co-founder and  director of the National Family Support Network, discusses America's best kept secret: the Family Resource Center.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 71 of the Podcast Guest co-host and 82nd Governor of New Hampshire Christopher T. Sununu joins the show to reflect on raising a family in the Granite State and four-terms in office. And later, Prevent Child Abuse America Chief Strategy officer Jennifer Jones discusses April Child Abuse Prevention Month and how building a comprehensive and aligned ecosystem of Primary Prevention through the new Theory of Change creates multi-generational opportunities for families everywhere. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 70 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink manage mixed emotions and discuss stress cleaning and what it communicates to our loved ones. And later we are joined by New Hampshire DHHS Community Wellness Administrator and Leader of the Choose Love Movement of New Hampshire Shannon Desilets joins us to talk heroic choices and the happiness quartet they bring. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 69 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink talk about the cost and availability of child care, and how working parents navigate disruptions to their daily schedule. And later we are joined by Senior Policy Analyst at New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute Nicole Heller, Executive Director of Early Learning New Hampshire Jackie Cowell, and Bureau Chief Jessie Davis of the Bureau Child Development of Head Start Collaboration, as well as parents and child care providers from across the Granite State.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 68 of the Podcast, Director of Child Family Services at Community Action Partnership of Stafford County and Black Lives Matter Seacoast Co-Founder Tanisha Johnson guest co-hosts a conversation about the power of empathy as a building block to belonging. And later award-winning business leader, entrepreneur, advocate, and speaker, Flo Nicolas joins the show to discuss identity, authenticity, and activating a community mindset.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 67 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink discuss black history month and the difference between being and seeming all year long.  And later thought-leader, author, and president of the Manchester Branch of the NAACP James McKim  joins the show to help us build toward a better, more inclusive community starting with those conversations about how we treat each other.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 66 of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink talk family resilience, breeding hermit crabs in captivity, and then peel back the layers on how they rely (and maybe over-rely) on certain family strengths. And later Executive Director of Rochester Child Care Center Cora-Lynn Hoppe joins the show to discuss falling in love with her children, as well as being the parent they need , and how examining the parenting journey allowed her to forgive her family and herself.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On the Season 4 Podcast Premiere, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink attempt to define family on their own terms and then together discuss the superpowers that keep their families moving. And later University of Minnesota professor and founding director of the Children, Youth & Families Consortium, Dr. Marti Erickson joins the show to talk about the Mom Enough Podcast and the many important ways a “good enough” parent-child relationship can super charge human potential.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On the Season 3 Finale of the podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink discuss parenting during the holly jolly holidays by expecting less from their children and taking the memory-making long game. And later executive director of NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action Joan Catherine Widmer joins the show to talk about our changing environment, what it means, and what Granite Staters can do. New Hampshire psychiatrist Dr. Bob Feder, pathologist Dr. Deborah Gerson, and a handful of New Hampshire families add to the conversation.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On today's podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink look back at 2023 and revisit conversations with psychotherapist and author of The Anxiety Audit Lynn Lyons, Executive Director of Harvard Law School Online and Sharenthood Author Leah Plunkett, as well as Rob Dapice, Executive Director of New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority. And finally, Assistant Professor in Global Health and Director of the Center for Community Resilience at the Milken Institute School of Public Health (George Washington University) Dr. Wendy Ellis walks us through a more resilient and equitable community.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Today on the podcast, co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Torres Allen talk about authentically engaging our children in holiday gatherings, over-salted cookies be damned. And then Executive Director Waypoint Family Resource Centers Borja Alvarez de Toledo joins the show to discuss upstream thinking and creating hospitable spaces for our youths. And finally Julianne Gadoury of Kimball Jenkins illustrates how art and arts facilitation brings out the humanity in all of us.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Today on the show co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Torres Allen make music to help their children through frustrating routines. 2023 New Hampshire Kid Governor Haydin Simmons and Jo Ann Robichaud of New Hampshire Civics join the show to talk about the importance of civic engagement. And later Kristyn Van Ostern, owner of Wash Street, discusses Load of Love, a unique program in support of our unhoused community. To support Load of Love, visit their Amazon Wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2FM32BWKQ2WA1?ref_=wl_shareSupport the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On today's podcast, co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink recap the Ride for Resilience ,  those Family Resource Centers it supports, as well as trading the tried-and-true "time out" for "time in". And later educator, mom, and founder of Own Beat Athlete, Susan Stout joins the show to discuss how to make for more nurturing sporting environments and the opportunity to bring out the best in our children.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Today on the show co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Torres Allen talk about creating opportunities for literacy building in young children. Then, Ride for Resilience riders Mark Knights, Laura Hagley, and Sean Skabo join the show to discuss this year's ride, personal resilience and how, together, cross-sector relationships make for more resilient communities. And finally, Sara Vecchiotti, Executive Director of the Couch Family Foundation, outlines early childhood strategies and investments that strengthen Granite State families. Support or Ride for Resilience Riders at https://www.pledgereg.com/ride-for-resilienceSupport the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Today on the podcast, Co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Torres Allen talk Kinship Care Month and checking our parenting expectations at the door, as well as how to celebrate Hispanic Heritage in all its unique expressions. And later, we are joined by Kinship Navigators Rosemary Nugent and Ellen Michniewicz to discuss New Hampshire's network of Kinship resources. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Today on the podcast, Assistant Professor in Global Health and Director of the Center for Community Resilience at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University Dr. Wendy Ellis joins the show to talk about building community resilience and walk us through a day in the life. And co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink go back to school alongside their kids.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Recorded LIVE for the PCA America National Conference: Together for Prevention, Pediatrician, professor, public health advocate, and author Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha joins the show to discuss her new book What the Eyes Don't See, a riveting and deeply personal account of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and how environmental justice and equity shines a light on who we value. Also co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Allen Torres talk child development and the art of letting go. And later, NH Children's Trust Director of Impact and Evaluation, Becky Berk, drops by to make sense of it all. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Guest co-host Kelly Roosa Cohen, President of Cohen Closing and Title, LLC, join co-host Nathan Fink for our Businesses that Build  Family segment to discuss the intersection of work-life and family and how to create safe spaces in which employees thrive. And later, we broadcast LIVE from the Family Support New Hampshire retreat, where together we reaffirm joint aspirations and our dedication to family resilience, and everyone gets soaked. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Chief Policy Officer of Zero to Three Miriam Calderón joins the podcast to talk about how the first 1000 days of a child's life can create lasting, transformative change not only for the individual but also an entire family, making for a brighter future for each and every one of us. Also co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Allen Torres discuss Trauma-informed childcare and all those little things they wished someone told them about parenting. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Today on the show Kevin Hines, suicide prevention advocate, best-selling author, speaker, and award-winning filmmaker, joins us to discuss an intra and interpersonal come global effort to be here tomorrow through identification, conversation and compassion. AND co-hosts Jasmine Torres Allen and Nathan Fink check in on their children through meaningful questions, especially where new and adverse environments are concerned.If you, or someone you care about, is experiencing a crisis, please call/text the NH Rapid Response Access Point at 1-833-710-6477 or chat [www.NH988.com]www.NH988.com.Also, the national 988 Lifeline Centers are available for phone, text, and chat by dialing 988 or via https://988lifeline.org/chat/.And to preorder the Kevin Hines' newest book, The Art of Being Broken: How Storytelling Saves Live, visit: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Being-Broken-Storytelling-Saves/dp/1637588526Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Torres Allen talk Juneteenth and the bridge that connects  ignorance to understanding. And later respected theorist and practitioner of racial justice organizing, advocacy and media, Rinku Sen (Executive Director) joins the show to talk The Narrative Initiative and how through the intersection of narrative, friendship, and social movement, stories can pave the way toward more a more equitable future for all. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On Episode 51, co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Torres Allen discuss NH PBS's new project Our Hometown Nashua and the importance of community pride and archiving everyday stories. Later, Executive Director of New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority Rob Dapice joins the show to talk about the state of Granite State housing and how we can get involved in the solution. And finally NHCT Impact and Evaluation Director Becky Berk swings by to break down that conversation as well as play Messing with Becky . Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

For the 50th Anniversary Episode,  co-hosts Nathan Fink and Jasmine Torres Allen talk about the intersection of imaginative play and parenting, as well as caring about community.  And later speaker, author, and founder & CEO of Alia Innovations, Dr. Amelia Franck Meyer joins the show to discuss the footings of the child welfare system and how through small but significant changes we can create an Unsystem to help families everywhere succeed. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Trauma-Responsive Stress Counselor Doug Bonnema joins the show to talk about Adverse Childhood Experiences, meeting our youths where they're at, and how we can build more supportive environments within our schools.  And later we celebrate parent leader and co-president of the Brookline PTO Miranda Terry for her incredible contributions to the community and for winning the Lucy Fowlkes Breed Family Service Volunteer Award. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Director of New Hampshire's Division for Children, Youth, and Families Joe Ribsam Jr. joins the show to reflect on the work that is supporting families, eligibility versus shared humanity, and shifting toward a system where caregivers can get what they need, when they need it.  And later Ellen Carlson of the New Hampshire Fiddle Ensemble talks about building community through music. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

On today's podcast producer, NH PBS community and education coordinator, and lifelong learner Jasmine Torres Allen joins us to laugh, listen, and (un)learn something new. And later NH Children's Trust Primary Prevention Director Maria Doyle joins us to ring in Child Abuse Prevention Month and how we can all join together to create nurturing relationships and environments for children. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Author, associate with Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and faculty member at Harvard Law School, Leah Plunkett joins the show to talk big tech, storytelling, and the newness of this human condition. And we dive headlong into her book Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk about Our Kids Online. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Award-Winning journalist, speaker,  moderator, and author, not to mention former host of NHPR's “The Exchange,” Laura Knoy joins the show to put her 25 years of public radio in perspective. And later we discuss her new novel The Shopkeeper of Alsace, as well as her podcast ReadLocalNH, and how story intersect with the lives we lead.    Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Parent Information Center Project Director Robin deAlmeida crosses the multiverse to discuss parent child power dynamics and navigating transitions. And later Mining for Gold Founder Corey Best joins the show to talk about the intersection of relationships and racial justice, and how together we can construct new ways to lift up humanity, community, and social systems.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Today on the show, PCA America Chief Research Officer Dr. Bart Klika brings a public health lens to a discussion about the neglect of neglect and what we can all do to normalize parent and caregiver supports. And later Children's Trust data administrator Becky Berk discusses what that conversation means for New Hampshire.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Co-hosts Joelyn Drennan and Nathan Fink talk 2023 aspirations and their Dry-January inspired clarity. And later psychotherapist, fellow podcaster, speaker, and author Lynn Lyons joins the show to discuss her new book The Anxiety Audit and how through simplifying, demystifying, and connecting, we can unhook from anxious thoughts and better pursue our wants and needs.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

For the SEASON 2 FINALE, Dr. Cassie Yackley, Director of the Center for Trauma-Responsive Practice Change, joins us to talk Child Parent Psychotherapy, uncovering pathways rather than pathologies, and turning emotional responses into positive choices. Also, co-hosts Joelyn Drennan and Nathan Fink reminisce and later do a little in-office caroling.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Professor of Psychology, Director at the Community Resilience and Social Equity Lab, and author Dr. Loretta L.C. Brady joins the podcast to discuss her new book Technology Touchpoints: Parenting in the Digital Dystopia, a family story woven together by global actors, policymaking, and a technology industry whose impacts unfold on our doorsteps.Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Co-hosts Joelyn Drennan and Nathan Fink talk childhood social circles, molting as an adult,  and maybe laugh a little too much. And later poet, producer, and performer (among other things) Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey joins the show to discuss how difficult conversations can lead to heightened consciousness and a deeper commitment to the people we intend to be. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Children's Trust Communications Specialist Victoria Carrington joins the podcast to talk big hair, being a weirdo, and the seen space that is representation. And later Program Director of Healthy Starts at HCS Services Penny Vaine, The River Center Executive Director Margaret Nelson, Executive Director of The Upper Room Brenda Guggisberg, and Mark Knights, Partner at Nixon Peabody as well as founder of New Hampshire's Ride for Resilience, gather to connect the dots between family support and family strength. Support the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!

Co-hosts Nathan Fink and Joelyn Drennan once again welcome Dr. Melissa T. Merrick, President and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America, to celebrate 50 years of primary prevention, swap a few parenting stories, and listen to your stories of what the work of prevention looks like in action. Wish Prevent Child Abuse America a HAPPY BIRTHDAY by visiting: https://preventchildabuse50.orgSupport the showLISTEN on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ask your smart speaker to play NH Family NOW!